Personalized and Proficiency Based Learning Implementation Team (Homepage)
From the draft goals paper:
The Challenge Students of the 21st Century come of age in an increasingly complex world in which each brings their own very diverse set of talents, interests, and needs. The old education models have run their course. The Personalized & Proficiency Based Learning team will focus on two large and intertwined ideas. One, it will explore and implement opportunities for the schools to move toward identifying clear learning goals for all students. Ultimately, instead of determining graduation readiness by a certain number of credits earned through course by course requirements, schools will assess preparedness for next steps in life through a set of Learning Expectations, or Proficiencies. And, as these proficiencies are defined, the door will open to the second priority for the PPBL team, exploring the world of new opportunities for students to develop unique, personalized pathways towards their high school diploma. This might range from one student substituting an independent learning opportunity in the place of one standard class, to another student creating a complete program of independent learning through community engagement. Opportunities will no longer be limited to the school day or to the semester; the increasingly critical commodity of time will be made more flexible with the adoption of new approaches to teaching and learning. Educators and students together will create a technology-rich environment, where learning loses its boundaries of time and place.
Mission The Personalized & Proficiency Based Learning team’s mission is explore, define and implement clear learning goals for all students that can be achieved through unique, personalized pathways towards their high school diploma.
RESOURCES AND OTHER VALUABLE LINKS
The draft Goals and Objectives doc for the PPBL Team is found at this link. It will be an important task of the PPBL to revise and refine this to reflect our plans through June.
A page of excellent resources can be found at this website.
Next Meeting
Tuesday, December 11
5:15 Potluck
Meeting:5:30 - 7:00
Location: Winooski High School, Room 219 (enter at main lobby, then follow the signs)
Agenda
Quick introductions
Scoping out Personalized & Proficiency Based Learning: (Sarah Bertucci, 20 min.)
- What do we mean, What are some of the big questions?
- Develop questions and tasks the PPBL team will need to address
Prioritize questions and tasks - vote by dots (5 min)
Break into subcomittees, explore priority questions and tasks (30 min)
Personalized and Proficiency Based Learning Implementation Team (Homepage)
From the draft goals paper:
The Challenge
Students of the 21st Century come of age in an increasingly complex world in which each brings their own very diverse set of talents, interests, and needs. The old education models have run their course. The Personalized & Proficiency Based Learning team will focus on two large and intertwined ideas. One, it will explore and implement opportunities for the schools to move toward identifying clear learning goals for all students. Ultimately, instead of determining graduation readiness by a certain number of credits earned through course by course requirements, schools will assess preparedness for next steps in life through a set of Learning Expectations, or Proficiencies. And, as these proficiencies are defined, the door will open to the second priority for the PPBL team, exploring the world of new opportunities for students to develop unique, personalized pathways towards their high school diploma. This might range from one student substituting an independent learning opportunity in the place of one standard class, to another student creating a complete program of independent learning through community engagement. Opportunities will no longer be limited to the school day or to the semester; the increasingly critical commodity of time will be made more flexible with the adoption of new approaches to teaching and learning. Educators and students together will create a technology-rich environment, where learning loses its boundaries of time and place.
Mission
The Personalized & Proficiency Based Learning team’s mission is explore, define and implement clear learning goals for all students that can be achieved through unique, personalized pathways towards their high school diploma.
RESOURCES AND OTHER VALUABLE LINKS
The draft Goals and Objectives doc for the PPBL Team is found at this link. It will be an important task of the PPBL to revise and refine this to reflect our plans through June.
A page of excellent resources can be found at this website.
Next Meeting
Tuesday, December 11
5:15 Potluck
Meeting:5:30 - 7:00
Location: Winooski High School, Room 219 (enter at main lobby, then follow the signs)
Agenda
- What do we mean, What are some of the big questions?
- Develop questions and tasks the PPBL team will need to address